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DanielLC comments on What if Strong AI is just not possible? - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: listic 01 January 2014 05:51PM

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Comment author: DanielLC 06 January 2014 01:33:08AM *  0 points [-]

You mean you've never met any non-transhumanophile and/or non-SF-bay human?

I'm not sure they're a big part of listic's target audience.

Comment author: DaFranker 08 January 2014 03:13:24PM 0 points [-]

If so, then the explanation proposed by Lalartu won't hold water with the target audience, i.e. the subset of humans who don't happen to hold that idea for granted.

If it's not, and the audience includes general-muggle-population in any non-accidental capacity, then it's worth pointing out that the majority of people accept the idea for granted, and thus that that subset of the target audience would take this explanation in stride.

Either way, the issue is relevant.

Mostly, I just wanted to respond to the emotionally-surprising assertion that they'd never cognizantly encountered this view.